Usually means: Remove or destroy completely; eradicate.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. extirp: Merriam-Webster
  2. extirp: Collins English Dictionary
  3. extirp: Wordnik
  4. extirp: Wiktionary
  5. Extirp, extirp: Dictionary.com
  6. Extirp: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. extirp: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Extirp: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. extirp: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. extirp: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Extirp: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. extirp-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (extirp)

▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To extirpate (something).

Similar:
extirpate, exscind, extermine, outroot, extripate, extrapate, eradicate, stock up, exect, expunct, more...

Opposite:
implant, establish, introduce, propagate

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Similar:
extirpate, exscind, extermine, outroot, extripate, extrapate, eradicate, stock up, exect, expunct, more...

Opposite:
implant, establish, introduce, propagate



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